missing distribution list

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I deleted one member of a distribution list and lost the whole list. Have
read others' accounts of this, but can't seem to restore. The list does not
show up in my deleted folder. I have backup .pst from a few days before.
Start Outlook, go to file/open/outlook data file. Navigate to my backup file.
Its modified date/time is right now (why?). Select anyway, a pause, screen
looks the same, have today's email and no list. Either the backup didn't
really open or somehow did another backup just now.
Repeated process a little while later, same thing. Modified date/time is
new, right now.
Am I crazy?
 
comfuted said:
I deleted one member of a distribution list and lost the whole list.
Have read others' accounts of this, but can't seem to restore. The
list does not show up in my deleted folder.
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Unless you emptied the Deleted Items folder, it should have been there.
I have backup .pst from a
few days before. Start Outlook, go to file/open/outlook data file.
Navigate to my backup file. Its modified date/time is right now
(why?).
Click to expand...

I think it's because Outlook always opens a data file with read/write access
and that updates the modified date.
Select anyway, a pause, screen looks the same, have today's
email and no list. Either the backup didn't really open or somehow
did another backup just now.
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Are you sure you're looking in the added PST's Contacts list?
 
Thanks Brian
Is there some way to distinguish between the two, if they are both open? How
to switch between them?
Since I did this, it seems like I must have both open because I get two
copies of each reminder from my calender. I shut down Outlook and restarted,
does the same thing. Looking at file/data file management/data file tab, I
see two .pst listed, one is the backup.
Norman
 
comfuted said:
Is there some way to distinguish between the two, if they are both
open? How to switch between them?
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One way to distinguish them is to give the added one a new display name.
You switch between them by clicking the appropriate folder in the Navigation
Pane.
Since I did this, it seems like I must have both open because I get
two copies of each reminder from my calender. I shut down Outlook and
restarted, does the same thing. Looking at file/data file
management/data file tab, I see two .pst listed, one is the backup.
Click to expand...

What version of Outlook are you using. Reminders don't fire from
non-default folders.
 
Thanks, I see there is a second "Personal Folders" there. Newest mail is from
just before my backup. But it has only mail folders, no contacts.

OH SEE "Contacts" and "Contacts in Personal Folders" in navigation pane,
open Contacts in personal folders, there is my list, dragged it into
Contacts, it is there.

Right clicked on second Personal Folders heading, Closed, now I am all fixed.
You are my hero.

I am using Outlook 2007, 12.0.6212.1000 SP1
 
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